Robin Ligon-Williams is an award-winning author, curator, cultural producer, and ethnomusicologist.
Her work in the Arts celebrates cultural connection, history, and identity—recognizing the past, yet transcending into the present. As a cultural transformer, Williams’ exhibits and programs strive to create equity and positivity through Art, Music, storytelling, and other expressions of the human spirit.
Williams has served as the head of several arts and cultural institutions in the Midwest and South.
Her work includes:
Serving as the head of the Garfield Park Arts Center for the City of Indianapolis
Serving as the head of the Aviation Museum for Fulton County/City of Atlanta
Serving as the head of the New Orleans Jazz Institute at the University of New Orleans
Creating 125 exhibitions
Publishing criticism on Art, culture, and race issues in the New York Times, Louisiana Weekly, OffBeat Magazine, Gambit Magazine, Indianapolis Star, and the SCLC National Magazine
Writing the book "Rhythm, Ritual & Resistance: Africa is Alive in the Black Indians of New Orleans," which was installed in the library of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
